Jennine Capó Crucet

Jennine Capó Crucet
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Jennine Capó Crucet is a latina novelist, and short story writer.

Life

She attended Cornell University. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska.[1]

Her work has appeared in the New York Times.[2]

She is best known for her short story collection How to Leave Hialeah which focuses on her experiences as a Cuban-American woman growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Miami.[3] For this collection she won the John Gardner Book Award.[4] Her second book, Make Your Home Among Strangers, was released in 2015.[5][6]

Awards

Publications

  • How to Leave Hialeah - (short story collection) University of Iowa Press, 2009. ISBN 1587298791[7]
  • Make Your Home Among Strangers - (novel) St. Martin's Press, 2015. ISBN 1250059666[8]

References

  1. ↑ "University of Nebraska-Lincoln Website". University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Jennine Capó Crucet". The New York Times. 2017-11-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  3. ↑ Adams, Cara Blue. "Review: How to Leave Hialeah". Ploughshares. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Young, Melissa Scholes. "How to Leave and Why You Stay: An Interview with Jennine Capó Crucet". Fiction Writers Review.
  5. ↑ "Novel Highlights The Shocks Facing First-Generation College Students". NPR. August 8, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ma, Kathryn (August 14, 2015). "'Make Your Home Among Strangers,' by Jennine Capó Crucet". New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Interview: Jennine Capó Crucet talks Miami, writing". miamiherald. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  8. ↑ "Novel Highlights The Shocks Facing First-Generation College Students". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  • "How to Leave Hialeah: A Reading with Jennine Capó Crucet". YouTube. 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2018-02-02.


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